{"id":104971,"date":"2025-05-30T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104971"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:51:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:51:32","slug":"album-review-serenitus-tranquility-in-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-serenitus-tranquility-in-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"SERENITUS – Tranquility In Insanity (2025) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SERENITUS
\nTranquility In Insanity<\/strong><\/span>
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\nNight Terrors \/ Desert Wastelands Productions (2025)<\/span>
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Serenitus is a one man project sprouting from Inglewood, California. This death-doom affair is the creation of J.P. (aka James Papson) who crafted the debut album in his home studio and to be honest, it\u2019s quite impressive.<\/p>\n

After a steady instrumental intro of a traipsing riff and plodding drum the album gallops to life with \u2018Cosmic Solitude\u2019. The riff is meaty and catchy, emanating from an early-to-mid 90s style of deathly stodge. Vocally, J.P. is fully down into the guttural passages of his chest cavity, the result being a deep, phlegm-scraping set of commands of old school values. Even with the pacier numbers, there\u2019s always that heavy layering of clay evident to bring the sound into low end territory.<\/p>\n

\u2018Oizys\u2019 Grasp\u2019 lumbers with menace as the drums trudge like troops of doom through sucking mud. I just really like the tone of this album and as each track reveals itself further, dense layers can be explored. The title track brings bluster with its chunky yet busy riffage before slowing to something more cavernous.<\/p>\n

Serenitus also sits comfortably in the modern death-doom scene, plying similar trades to a whole host of clay-caked bands. It\u2019s heavy, clogged, although not necessarily sluggish but always provides a dense atmosphere, the epitome of such bludgeoning being the eight minute \u2018Deep Rest\u2019. Okay, so it takes an eternity to get going but when it does it\u2019s up there with the likes of Sanctuarium for yawning sludge, although the change of pace is quite the surprise.<\/p>\n

\u2018Hypnotic Scenery\u2019 moans like traditional doom, especially with the mournful guitar tone and steady drum thuds. Further into the depths of the song there\u2019s an almost majestic roll, like some great whale stirring black waves. It also shows just how good an artist J.P. is, because although he\u2019s walking a well worn path he\u2019s making his own impression, colossal footprints in fact and all in the name of death and doom.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SERENITUS Tranquility In Insanity Night Terrors \/ Desert Wastelands Productions (2025) Rating: 8\/10 Serenitus is a one man project sprouting from Inglewood, California. This death-doom affair is the creation of J.P. (aka James Papson) who crafted the debut album in his home studio and to be honest, it\u2019s quite impressive. After a steady instrumental intro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5924],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-serenitus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104976,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104971\/revisions\/104976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}